{"id":17069,"date":"2025-07-14T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wru-considers-cutting-up-to-two-regional-teams\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:00:34","slug":"wru-considers-cutting-up-to-two-regional-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wru-considers-cutting-up-to-two-regional-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"WRU considers cutting up to two regional teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Union said it would consult on a reduction to three or two regions to ensure Wales has &#8220;teams that can compete&#8221; at the top of the professional game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The shake-up also comes after the men&#8217;s side suffered its worst season with nine defeats in 10 games that drew a total losing sequence of 18 matches, a run that only ended last weekend with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cj4ezjynkljo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">31-22 victory<\/a> in the second Test against Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The current rugby system in Wales, which includes national teams, professional clubs, community clubs, academies, universities and schools isn&#8217;t delivering consistent success on the field and isn&#8217;t currently financially sustainable given the likely investment required, even with the recent actions taken to increase financial resources,&#8221; the WRU said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The WRU is therefore considering a more radical strategy focused on maximising investment and reforming the whole structure of professional rugby in Wales, amongst other options.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/czdv2vnnn4jo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union said it would consult on a reduction to three or two regions to ensure Wales has &#8220;teams that can compete&#8221; at the top of the professional game. The shake-up also comes after the men&#8217;s side suffered its worst season with nine defeats in 10 games that drew a total losing sequence of 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17071,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069\/revisions\/17071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}